Envelop.



W. E. GILMORE.

ENVELOP. APPLIQAT'I'ON FILED 9119.31, 1999.

Patented July 12, 1910.

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Specication of Application filed August 31, 1909. Serial N o. 515,493.

Letters Patent.

Patented July i12, 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. GILMORE, a citizen of the'United States, residing at I-Iolmesville, in the county of Holmes and. State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Envelop, of which the following is a specification.

It is the object of the present invention to provide an improved construction of envelop and the invention aims more specically to provide an envelop which will be adapted for use by persons living in rural districts where it is frequently diiicult to secure postage stamps and Where letters are usually mailed accompanied by the necessary coin for the stamps to be applied thereto.

It is the custom to deposit the letters to be mailed in the mail box at the rural delivery route and to deposit also in this box the necessary coin to pay the postage on the mail matter but -where such coin is deposited loosely in the box it is frequently diflicult to remove it and especially is this method disadvantageous in snowy weather.' In fact in some forms of boxes it is impos-l sible to remove coins therefrom without be ing extremely inconvenienced.

With the object in view of overcoming the disadvantages of this custom, the invention aims to provide an envelop so constructed that the necessary coin for postage up the blank. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the blank from which the envelop is formed, the blank being illustrated as partly folded. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view through in one pocket thereof.

In the drawings the envelop is illustrated as constructed from a blank which is sbstantially of the form of an ordinary blank it including a front which is indicated by the` numeral 5, end flaps indicated by the numeral 6, a bottom flap 7, and a closure Hap 8. The end ilaps 6, as above stated,are of a form substantially identical with the end flap of the ordinary envelop, and having a curved edge and a straight edge which is indicated by ne numeral 10. The bottom flapis of the ordinary form so that it will overlap quite a portion of the outer faces of the end flaps 6 as isindicated in Fig. 1 of the drawing and in forming up the en yvelops from the blank, the end flaps 6 are `first folded over against the rear face of the front 5 of the blank and adhesive is applied -to the outer faces of the end flaps 6, over the field bounded by the dotted lines in Fig. of the drawing. The bottom Hap 7V is then folded to lie flat against the end iaps 6 with its upper corner portions overlappingthe end flaps to a considerable degree `and the adhesive serving to secure the botmay be deposited in a pocket formed therein, and will be so held until the letter isl removed by the postman. Upon removalof the letter, or at some subsequent time, thel coin is removed from the pocket and a stamp purchased therewith is applied to the en`` velop. l

The invention aims,

among other things,l to provide` an envelop of this character soiv constructed that while the coin Vcarried thereby will be securely held in place by frictional engagement with the Walls of the pocket in the envelop blank, it may be very; read-ily removed from such pocket Without in any way defacing or in'iuring the en-` velop itself.

In the accompanying drawings, FigureA 1 is a plan view of an envelop constructed in accordance with the present invention, the dot and dash lines in this ligure indicating the edges of thevcoin pocket and of the flaps between which these pockets are formedand tom flap to the said end flaps as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing. It will be observed that when the envelop has thus been formed from the blank, two pockets will be formed between the bottom flap and the two end flaps, these pook` being indicated by the numeral 1v1. It will further be observed from the drawing that the two side edges of each pocket extend at an acute angle with reone of these side edges, indicatedby thenumeral 12, extends parallel to the upper edge of the front 5 of the envelop the outer' side -Y extending substantially at right angles tothe said upper edge of the front 5 of the envelop, whereas the bottom edge of each pocket extends along a line passing through one lower corner ofthe front 5 and through the 'upper edge of the said front near the middle thereof. Owingto the kpeculiar location of several' edges of each pocket, the

the dotted lines indicatingl the field over pocket-s -are of -lgreater width at their botwhich adhesive is to' be applied in forming the envelop folded and illustrating a coinspect to the bottom edge of the pocket andy edge being indicated by the numeral 13, and

ltoms than at Words increaselin mouths."

It Will be observed that when the closure 8 is folded down to seal the envelop it does not closeeither of the pockets 11 but these pockets are at all times left open, so that after the envelop is sealed a coin may be placed in each pocket. It Will further be observed that the mouth of ,the pocket is necessarily restricted and the'coin Will not be liable to be lost. Furthermore, the portions of the end and bottom a s aording the Walls of the pocket Will frictionally hold the coin against loss.

What is claimed is As an article ot manufacture, an envelop having a front, end iaps folded upon the rear face of the front, a 4rear iiap folded fiat against the rear faces of the end flaps, said rear ap being securedto the end ,flaps by moans so applied as to form between the their` open sides or in other- Width inwardly from their said rear and end flaps, a coin pocket, the said pocket havin? its bottom extending diagonally across tie envelop at one corner and its mouth extending also diagonally across the envelop at the said corner 'and lpresented toward the said corner of the envelop, the ends of the oclret being located relatively at substantially right angles, the said pocket decreasin in Width from its bottom to its mouth, an a closure Hap integral with the upper edge of the front and foldable to position a ainst the rear faces of the back and end a s and arranged when so folded and secure to said aps to additionally narrow the mouth of the pocket.

In testimonyf that I claim the foregoing as my own, l have hereto' allixcd iny signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM li. GILMUHE. lVitnesses:

J. E. MCCLELLAND, CARL SCHULER. 

